Today's generation that I am a part of, can accurately be called the net-gen (n-gen) or digital-gen (d-gen). All three articles touched on different topics of the digital native concept. But the main thing they had in common, was that they were all correct. The youth and young adults of today are so far ahead of most grown ups in terms of technological literacy it's not even funny. "You see them everywhere. The teenage girl with the ipod, sitting across from you on the subway, frenetically typing messages into her cell phone. The whiz kid summer intern in your office who knows what to do when your e-mail client crashes." I see digital natives and digital immigrants side-by-side often at my place of employment. When it comes to the Point of Sales system (operating system) we use, the younger people always catch on ten times as fast as a new hire that is an older person. There is no doubt in my mind that the n-gen has a clear cut advantage in today's workforce. If we can take our natural technological abilities and combine them with the professionalism and knowledge that is expected in the workforce, we should be guranteed success in our careers.
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